Discourses in Search of Members In Honor of Ron Scollon
by Li, David C. S.; Snyder, Gary; Frost, Helen; Holthaus, Gary; Longfellow, Layne A.; Cortazzi, Martin; Jin, Lixian; Gee, James Paul; Gilmore, Perry; Smith, David; Hayashi, Reiko; Hayashi, Takuo; Michaels, Sarah; Sohmer, Richard; Bowers, C.A; Flowerdew, JohnFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-03-04
Publisher(s): UPA
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Summary
Discourses in Search of Members is a festschrift in honor of Professor Ron Scollon on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday in May, 1999. The 25 contributions, which vary from conventional research based articles to essays to poetic genres, all reflect the significant scholarly influence Professor Ron Scollon has had on his students and colleagues. The contributors come from various regions including Finland, Australia, Japan and the UK and truly represent an international community.
Table of Contents
| Editor's Preface | p. vii |
| Select Scholarly Works and Activities of Ron Scollon as of July, 2001 | p. xi |
| Prelude | |
| Chats in Alaska with Ron | p. 3 |
| Looking for the little dog | p. 5 |
| Scenes from skirmishes on the bilingual front | p. 9 |
| The language of commerce interprets living systems: Something's lost in the translation | p. 35 |
| Educational Discourse | |
| Cultures of learning: The social construction of educational identities | p. 49 |
| Discourses at school | p. 79 |
| Identity, resistance and resilience: Counter narratives and subaltern voices in Alaskan higher education in 1991 | p. 103 |
| Duality and continuum in indirect talk: Linguistic style and gender in clinical supervision | p. 135 |
| "Discourses" that promote new academic identities | p. 171 |
| Criticial and Media Studies | |
| Language, high-status knowledge, and the double binds in addressing the ecological crisis | p. 223 |
| English in Hong Kong at the moment of reversion to Chinese sovereignty | p. 233 |
| What's news? A comparison of analysis of news production between the qualitative sociological approach and culturalist tradition | p. 255 |
| Guanxi: Backdoor practice as goal-directed discourse | p. 273 |
| Genres of symbolic violence: Beauty-contest discourse practices in Hong Kong | p. 299 |
| Intercutlural / Interdiscourse Communication | |
| "I speak the language of the universe": A universally particularizing native American discourse | p. 319 |
| Tlingit clans and shifting patterns of socio-political discourse | p. 335 |
| Moral work in intercultural communication: Explicit reference to moral norms in German-Chinese interactions | p. 361 |
| On identity and membership in multicultural broadcast interaction | p. 393 |
| Saa Taaigik: A metaphor for conflict management | p. 423 |
| "Gleaning" and the proactive audience: An Athabascan perspective for modern folkloristics | p. 451 |
| From Language Learning to Comparative Poetics | |
| Expressions of L1 Literacy in L2 Writing | p. 465 |
| The use of citations and authorial voice in a genre of Chinese academic discourse | p. 483 |
| Learning Cantonese: Reflections of an EFL teacher educator | p. 509 |
| Enlisting patterns, enlisting members | p. 541 |
| Pragmatic dissonance: The ecstasy and agony of speaking like a native speaker of English | p. 559 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 595 |
| Index | p. 605 |
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